144 GLOBE-FLOWER. 



loveliness, too, of lesser things, and the pure 

 lessons ■svliich are taught by every opening 

 leaf or flower. The spacious vault of heaven 

 is not to him as the temple of the Living 

 God, nor from earth's great altar does the 

 incense of thanksgivmg continually ascend. 

 Far otherwise are the thoughts and aspira- 

 tions of the Christian. He feels, indeed, 

 that the curse still presses heavily on nature ; 

 that his mind is often bowed down, and 

 weary, that he cannot praise liis Maker as 

 he ought to praise Him ; but he rejoices 

 in the hope that the hour is hastening on, 

 when the curse shall pass away ; when the 

 whole creation, freed from the oppression 

 which now enthralls it, shall rejoice in the 

 consciousness of dehverance. 



